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MicrosoftDiscontinuation of support for Session Border Controllers in Exchange Online Unified Messaging
Thanks Anthony. From what I can tell, Azure VM requires Phone System PBX licensing. It doesn't make sense to license Phone System while simultaneously attaching your users to an external PBX (essentially double-paying), except perhaps in a migration scenario.
I think customers who leverage Exchange UM with a 3rd party PBX are still looking for solution to go to the cloud. I was disappointed to confirm that X-UM requires Enterprise Voice CALs, and am currently trying to find out whether anynode has the same requirement.
Anynode will have the same requirement I suspect, it's just the way it's designed to communicate. It's basically an trusted application bolt-on to Skype that delivers direct to voicemail from what I understand.
- Yep, that is the case. We are now looking at AVST as there is no cost effective alternative solution that avoids the extra licensing.
I like AVST, I've used them on deployments even in the Lync days when the corporation wasn't fully on Exchange.